School closings and slick roads announced as snow continues to fall

January 28, 2007|SBT 24/7 Staff Report

Due to the blanket of lake-effect snow, some schools and business are already announcing closings. According to WSBT-TV Lake Michigan Catholic Schools and Lakeshore Public Schools have announced they will be closed Monday. Trinity Lutheran-St. Joseph, Mich. has announced childcare and preschool will be closed Monday. Westville Schools have announced a two hour delay Monday. IPC Print Services has announced their 4Star/3rd shift is cancelled. Their first shift, however, should report at 7 a.m. WSBT-TV meteorologists predict lake-effect snow will continue falling in the area through Sunday night, with 1 to 3 more inches possible. Skies will clear briefly tommorrow, but snow showers will return Monday. Indiana State Police have announced major thoroughfares in the area such as U.S. 31 and U.S. 20 are becoming covered with snow or ice. They are reporting many secondary roads in the district as being snow covered. They are also reporting the Indiana Toll Road, from the Illinois line to Lagrange County, is being covered by snow or ice. Cass and Berrien counties in southwest lower Michigan and LaPorte, St. Joseph, and Elkhart counties in Indiana are under a lake-effect snow warning through this evening. A lake-effect snow warning means that significant amounts of snow is being forecasted and that travel will become very dangerous. Starke, Marshall, Kosciusko, and Lagrange counties in Indiana are under a lake-effect snow advisory through this evening. A lake-effect snow advisory means that travel could become difficult in some areas. Keep up with the latest on this developing story with the South Bend Tribune, www.southbendtribune.com, the SBT24/7News page as well as www.wsbt.com, WSBT-TV, www.wsbtradio.com and WSBT Radio.